Trying to backing up vista over a workgroup

[barry milliken]

I have a 2 computer home network.
I use the external drive attached to one XP system to backup data from both
machines.

Now one computer died and has been replaced with a Vista machine.

I'm trying to back it up to the XP machine external drive over the network.

I've set up permissions on the Vista machine to share the folders I want to
back up.

But when I try to navigate to them from the XP machine. I'm asked for a
username and password???

The 2 users accounts on the Vista machine are not password protected, so I
don't know what to do.

Any ideas??

 

[Innes]

I have a 2 computer home network.
I use the external drive attached to one XP system to backup data from
both machines.

Now one computer died and has been replaced with a Vista machine.

I'm trying to back it up to the XP machine external drive over the
network.

I've set up permissions on the Vista machine to share the folders I want
to back up.

But when I try to navigate to them from the XP machine. I'm asked for a
username and password???

The 2 users accounts on the Vista machine are not password protected, so I
don't know what to do.

Any ideas??

Give the user account a name and password, then log on and provide the User
name and password.

Hope this helps

Innes

 

[Guest]

The response from "Innes" may work, but it is not really adequate. I have a
similar problem to Barry's, I'm trying to backup to a workgroup computer on a
home network where none of my accounts have passwords, and password protect
is disabled. For some reason backup still demands a password to access the
networked computer (and even the public folder on my own computer), though
there IS no password to give. I do not want to require passwords on my
accounts, so how do I get around this requirement? Or is this just a flaw in
Vista?

 

[Chris J Dixon]

The response from "Innes" may work, but it is not really adequate. I have a
similar problem to Barry's, I'm trying to backup to a workgroup computer on a
home network where none of my accounts have passwords, and password protect
is disabled. For some reason backup still demands a password to access the
networked computer (and even the public folder on my own computer), though
there IS no password to give. I do not want to require passwords on my
accounts, so how do I get around this requirement? Or is this just a flaw in
Vista?

I use TrueImage, but it has a similar requirement. The fix is
easy - just create a user named, for instance, "Backup", and
allocate a password. Do the same on the second machine. You
then have something to input, but no need for a password on your
own account.

Chris

 

[Guest]

I'm still not finding a solution to the request for username and password
when specifying a drive location ( \\computer\e ) on a workgroup computer
running XP Pro. I've tried shutting down the firewall, norton and setting up
a username with password on both systems with admin rights.

I am able to map and fully access the drive in other ways. I don't want to
buy or download another backup utility - is there no hope?

If this is answered elsewhere, I apologize, but have been searching and
didn't see it.